@danielmesse.bsky.social
Songwriter for Hem, Composer/Lyricist for “Amélie the Musical” and “Prelude to a Kiss.” Just here to share the music that’s inspiring me these days.
The album reels are assembled! Now off to Sterling Sound Nashville for vinyl mastering.
05.08.2025 17:37 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I know nothing about this band/person named “Twain”, but they can sure make a great song! Visionary folk music, sort of in the spirit of early Victoria Williams. Highly recommended!
15.07.2025 23:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How is it possible that Paul Simon is still capable of surprising us in 2025? “Trail of Volcanos” is an exercise in restraint, but reaching for something truly sublime, like a whispered prayer:
11.07.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still hung up on Charlotte Cornfield. What an incredibly satisfying song:
10.07.2025 23:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
04.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is there anything more luxuriously comforting than Shirley Horn singing a great old Johnny Mandel / Alan Bergman song?
03.07.2025 23:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to you and the entire company! Looks like a magical production!
03.07.2025 21:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We Would Call This Place Our Home” by a band out of the Netherlands called Happy Camper, starts out as this unassuming pinecone of a tune, and grows into a majestic Douglas fir. Naturally, I’m obsessed:
02.07.2025 15:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve mentioned @charlottecornfield.bsky.social before, and my admiration for her work has only grown since then. Her song “Storm Clouds” is an incredible piece of songwriting; the specificity in her lyrics, that incredible repeating bridge/coda, not to mention her performance. It’s all just perfect:
28.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For the vinyl release of “Rabbit Songs” we’re doing everything we can to go directly from the original 1/2” tapes to the lathe; analog to analog. Today, we finally unearthed the original mixes for “Sailor” (once thought lost). A very good day!
27.06.2025 16:49 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 2
Okay, I know I just posted about Foxwarren @foxwarrenhq.bsky.social, but that was before I found out that the band just released their 2nd album, and I’m already obsessed. Check out this gorgeous tune: those soft, major-7th-y chord expansions that float in at the choruses just melt me.
26.06.2025 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the past 10 years, some of my favorite artists have realeased some of my favorite albums ever. And the one release I find myself returning to more than any other has to be the 2018 debut from @foxwarrenhq.bsky.social.
22.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m breaking my social media fast because this particular version of this particular song is too good not to share.
“Perfect Dark (Live at RAK)” by Flyte w/Madison Cunningham:
St. Charlene is definitely in the running. I don’t think it’s even available on the major streaming platforms.
11.05.2025 01:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a show! Just saw Chris Staples playing the most intimate rooftop concert you can imagine. Such a beautiful night of great songs!
01.05.2025 01:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Would you like to hear a really wonderful instrumental song? “I Fell in Love, Again” by Australian artist Sinj Clarke is as moody as it is melodic; familiar and aloof, like a passerby’s smile.
28.04.2025 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, Larry!
23.04.2025 22:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Funny, we had this exact conversation today. There are a couple songs that we recorded back then but did not release for various reasons. One of them was the original version of “Pacific Street” (different than the one that wound up on Eveningland). Still have a lot of tapes to go through.
23.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dusting off the Rabbit Songs 1/2” mix reels for the upcoming vinyl release!
23.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 8 📌 2
Just heard that we lost William Finn yesterday, and I am remembering that day back in 1990 when I first laid ears on his ‘Falsetto-verse.’ What a revelation! So stylized and theatrical, yet completely grounded in real emotions. It still inspires me after all this time.
13.04.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Every Little Thing” by Maddie Jay and Chase Ceglie is this bejeweled, fuzzy dream of a song. So many good ideas, and hooks upon hooks. Take a listen:
11.04.2025 23:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How does Chris Staples pack so much emotion into his songs when they are so restrained? Take “Always on My Mind”: the bursts of melody are almost sporadic, and the lyrics are basically beautifully-observed haikus. The overall effect is moving, unpretentious, and perfect.
07.04.2025 03:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Incredible, and worth the wait! Jeremy Jordan was born to sing this score!
03.04.2025 01:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holy smokes, the new album from Joshua Burnside is blowing my mind! It feels both original and ancient, like some sort of future myth.
27.03.2025 23:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agreed! So much great music these days!
27.03.2025 23:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tele Novella describe their music as “coin-operated medieval country songs through a 1950s western lens” which is both evocative and accurate. They totally scratch the same itch as folks like Calexico, Chris Isaak, and the great Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
26.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is like the platonic ideal of a country-gospel song! Salvation lies between Johnny Cash’s low-down drawl and Anita Carter’s high-lonesome soprano.
16.03.2025 14:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0!['Colour Of The Rain' by Oisin Leech [Official Performance Video] -Feat. Steve Gunn and Tony Garnier.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4qclvi5fa4hijheu4xpn6cok/bafkreibg2r6lf3wecg3l7pc3by7zrwpbjtsfguyvwit6clgizfqvzcat7m@jpeg)
Listening to this beautiful song by Oisin Leech @oisinleech.bsky.social is the closest I’ve come to experiencing peace in a long time. Highly recommended!
12.03.2025 21:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I am completely charmed by this quirky epic “On The Bus” by a band named “Improvement Movement”. It travels to the most surprising places!
08.03.2025 02:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Stop Making Sense” was my introduction way back when and it’s still my favorite.
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